Adulthood & Aging

Journeys through Emerging Adulthood takes the reader on a tour of contemporary transitions to adulthood, reporting on the latest cross-national and cross-cultural research into young adulthood and separating fact from fiction about this important life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496425614Author Dr. Daniel G. AmenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Synthesizing a vast body of empirical research and organizing it around a comprehensive conceptual model, this book is recognized as the definitive reference on adult attachment. The authors explain how what began as a theory of child development is now...

At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250137777Author Julie Lythcott-HaimsFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Published in August of 2008, WAIS-IV is the most widely used intelligence test for adults in the world. Substantive changes were made to the WAIS-IV from the WAIS-III leaving clinicians with questions as to how to use and interpret the measure...

Research suggests that only 10-30% of our lifespan is determined by our genetics. This means that the vast majority of how we age is directly related to choices we make everyday - how and what we eat, exercise and sleep quality, to name a few. So, while...

Adult life is full of mysteries. What should you check before renting a flat? How do you ask for a pay rise? Does anything really need to be dry cleaned? And why does everyone else seem to know these things except you? (They don't, but this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995513969Author HequetFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Super Power My Life Ltd.Publisher Super Power My Life Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630510893Author Murray SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive issues; bringing people together, and allowing a person to live in the moment. Connecting through Music with...

In How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessness, putting this often-overlooked legacy in conversation with the issues that childless women and men face...

Award-winning authors Marcy Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom have teamed up again following the success of their critically acclaimed book The Gift of Caring, winner of the 2016 National Christopher Award. This new book blends frontline science with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744205Author Daniel J. LevitinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434920Author Mary-Elaine JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

With a storyteller's gift and a scientist's insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the...

A philosophically and medically informed response to the physical vulnerabilities of our existence As we grapple with the impacts of an aging population, the millions who struggle with chronic pain and illness, and the unknown number of COVID survivors...

In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the reported numbers of people with autism have increased from one in every 2,000 children to one in every 50--a...

Learn the art of growing old from the supercentenarians living life to the fullest.It's said that life begins at 40 - but that number is constantly revised upwards as we live longer and longer. With the number of centenarians having quadrupled in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532215Author Sara Lawrence-LightfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife - an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman's adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years. Through her own experiences as a fifty-something woman, and those of her...

The first book to look seriously at the practical issues facing older adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASC), Wenn Lawson's groundbreaking handbook offers support, advice, and sensible ways in which to look at the issues.Informed by current...

A New York Times Bestseller There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws. They are living longer, but in a culture that has come to worship youth--a culture in...

People react very differently to the process of ageing. Some people shy away from old age for as long as they can and eventually spend it reflecting on times when they were physically and mentally stronger and more independent. For others old age is...

How can positive psychology approaches help us to understand the process of adjustment to, and living well with dementia?As accounts of positive experiences in dementia are increasingly emerging, this book reviews current evidence and explores how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641583596Author Alice FrylingFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing Group

From Bulletproof creator and bestselling author Dave Asprey comes a revolutionary approach to anti-aging that will help you up your game at any age.Dave Asprey suffered countless symptoms of aging as a young man, which sparked a life-long burning desire...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife - an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman's adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years. Through her own experiences as a fifty-something woman, and those of her...

Why this book? Because you might be a dick: a mean spirited, self-obsessed, self-serving, uncaring individual who thinks and acts as though everyone else in the world can only be understood - and whose only importance is defined - in terms of their...

The word "orphan" may make us think of a child--but even self-sufficient adults can feel the pain of "orphanhood" when their parents are suddenly gone. Complicating the natural mourning process is the fact that this loss often occurs in our thirties,...

The Psychology of Retirement is the first self-help guide to retirement based on highly proven psychological coping strategies. Provides the most comprehensive and coherent account of the challenges of retirement and the associated aging...

The applications of positive psychology are different from traditional interventions in therapy in that they are focused on building strength, resilience and well-being rather than being restricted to simply treating disorder. Since the publication of...

The Adult Years is a compelling look at adulthood as an opportunityfor continual revitalization, reorientation, and positive change.In this revised edition, Frederic Hudson updates and refines hisvision, reflecting the extraordinary challenges we all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826166166Author Erin L. WoodheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co Inc

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience is an exploration in understanding the psychological tasks inherent for women in creating and maintaining purpose as they mature and enter their later years. With...

Soul was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. Soul music, soul food, soul sister. I first knew soul in church, where it meant being damned, more or less. Soul music is more about getting on down than rising up to heaven... Soul is moving to the beat – of our...

Later life can be a time when our established routines and coping strategies are challenged by retirement, losses, changes in social role and disabilities, resulting in frightening threats to the integrity of self. Such changes may jeopardise...

As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father's way of being an older adult. People today tend...

Arts in Healthy Aging examines public policies and professional practices that effectively use the arts to support health and well-being outcomes in older adults. It offers a comprehensive study of why and how purposefully-designed programs that engage...

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest...